Anthony Everitt

A lively portrait of the quintessential Roman politician describes the life and times of the ancient statesman, based on the witty and candid letters that Cicero wrote to his friend Atticus in which he described the events and personalities that shaped the final days of Republican Rome. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician

Cicero

Traces the rise of Rome as an unlikely evolution from a market village to the world's most powerful empire, offering insight into its political clashes, military strategies, leading figures, and internal corruptions.

The Making of the World's Greatest Empire

The Rise of Rome

A meticulously researched profile of the enigmatic Roman emperor places his formative years against a backdrop of first-century events and chronicles his successful efforts to end a century of disorder and warfare. By the best-selling author of Cicero.

Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome

The Life of Rome's First Emperor

Augustus

A sweeping biography of Rome's first emperor follows Augustus Caesar as he transformed the Roman Republic into the world's greatest empire, consolidating and expanding Roman power into every aspect of the known world of his time, and examines his life in the context of the world in which he lived. By the author of Cicero. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

More than two millennia have passed, but Alexander the Great is still a household name. His life was an adventure story and took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and glamour persist, and his early death at thirty-three has kept him evergreen in our imaginations with a legacy that meant something different to every age- in the Middle Ages he became an exemplar of knightly chivalry, he was a star of Renaissance paintings, and by the early twentieth century he even came to resemble an English gentleman. But who was he in his own time? In Alexander the Great, Anthony Everitt judges Alexander's life against the criteria of his own age and considers all his contradictions. We meet the Macedonian prince who was naturally inquisitive and fascinated by science and exploration, who enjoyed the arts and used the poet Homer's great epic, the Iliad, as a bible. As his empire grew, stretching from Greece and Macedonia to Ancient Egypt and Persia and all the way to India, Alexander exhibited respect for the traditions of his new subjects and careful judgment in administering rule over a vast territory. But his career also had a dark side. An inveterate conqueror, who in his short life built the largest empire to that point in history, Alexander glorified war and was known to commit acts of great cruelty. As debates continue about the meaning of his life, Alexander's death remains an unsolved mystery. Did he die of natural causes, felled by a fever, or did his marshals, angered by his tyrannical behavior, kill him? An explanation of his death can lie only in what we know of his life, and Everitt ventures to solve that puzzle, offering an ending to Alexander's story that has eluded so many for so long.

Alexander the Great

Roddy Ashworth

The Reluctant Emperor

Nero

Rise of Rome

"A magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history's most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian"--

the story of the world's greatest civilization

The rise of Athens

Um relato magistral de como uma minúscula cidade-estado na Grécia Antiga, com apenas 200 mil habitantes, se tornou uma das civilizações mais influentes da história. Este livro conta como Atenas, em um espaço de 200 anos, nos séculos V e IV antes de Cristo, transformou o mundo – da revolução democrática, que marcou o seu início, passando pela idade de ouro política e cultural da cidade, até o seu declínio. Respeitado autor de biografias, Anthony Everitt contrói seu livro com retratos inesquecíveis dos talentosos, ambiciosos e inescrupulosos atenienses que alimentaram a ascensão da cidade: Temístocles, o brilhante estrategista naval que levou os gregos a uma vitória decisiva sobre seus inimigos persas; Péricles, cujos discursos e atitudes o transformaram no maior estadista ateniense; e o vilão Alcibíades, que mudou sua lealdade política várias vezes durante o curso da Guerra do Peloponeso - e morreu sob uma chuva de flechas. Everitt traz também fascinantes relatos das batalhas que definiram o mundo helênico, como Maratona e Salamina. Os atenienses acreditavam na razão e em seu poder de solucionar os mistérios da condição e da natureza humana. Levantaram questões filosóficas que os pensadores de hoje ainda debatem. Uma comunidade onde Sócrates dava aulas de ética nas ruas para seus alunos, entre eles Platão e Xenofonte. Dramaturgos como Ésquilo, Sófocles e Eurípides; o escultor Fídeas e o comediante Aristófanes são alguns dos personagens usados por Everitt para mostrar como Atenas lançou as bases do universo intelectual contemporâneo. O autor combina análises históricas eruditas e ponderadas com peças narrativas emocionantes que capturam o mundo dramático da Grécia.

A história da maior civilização do mundo

A ascensão de Atenas

“A fascinating insight into the mind of the Roman emperor.”—Sunday Telegraph (London) Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’s thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of disorder and costly warfare to a peaceful conclusion while demonstrating how a monarchy can be compatible with good governance. What distinguished Hadrian’s rule, according to Everitt, were two insights that inevitably ensured the empire’s long and prosperous future: He ended Rome’s territorial expansion, which had become strategically and economically untenable, by fortifying her boundaries (the many famed Walls of Hadrian), and he effectively “Hellenized” Rome by anointing Athens the empire’s cultural center, thereby making Greek learning and art vastly more prominent in Roman life. By making splendid use of recently discovered archaeological materials and his own exhaustive research, Everitt sheds new light on one of the most important figures of the ancient world.

Approaches to Integrated Cultural Planning and Policies

The Governance of Culture

Anthony Everitt examines the tendency for more and more people to become involved in all aspects of music, and the growing movement that is bridging the gap between those who make music and the public at large.

An Investigation Into Participatory Music

Joining in

A riveting new biography of Caesar Augustus, Rome's first emperor and one of the most influential men in history

Caesar Augustus and the Triumph of Rome

The First Emperor

Yn y gyfrol hon mae Anthony Everitt yn ymdrin â chyfres o seminarau a gynhaliwyd i drafod lle diwylliant yn natblygiad hunaniaeth a dinasyddiaeth Ewropeaidd. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

United Or Divided by Culture?

Europe

Abstract Expressionism

From the acclaimed author of Augustus, Cicero, and The Rise of Rome, an entertaining and richly informative miscellany of facts about Rome and the Roman world SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus. Do you know to what use the Romans put the excrement of the kingfisher? Or why a dinner party invitation from the emperor Domitian was such a terrifying prospect? Or why Roman women smelled so odd? The answers to these questions can be found in this compendium of extraordinary facts and anecdotes about ancient Rome and its Empire. The 500-odd entries range across every area of Roman life and society, from the Empress Livia's cure for tonsillitis to the most reliable Roman methods of contraception.

SPQR: A Roman Miscellany

SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus. A moreishly entertaining and richly informative miscellany of facts about Rome and the Roman world. Do you know to what use the Romans put the excrement of the kingfisher? Or why a dinner party invitation from the emperor Domitian was such a terrifying prospect? Or why Roman women smelt so odd? The answers to these questions can be found in SPQR, a compendium of extraordinary facts and anecdotes about ancient Rome and its Empire. Its 500-odd entries range across every area of Roman life and society, from the Empress Livia's cure for tonsillitis to the most reliable Roman methods of contraception.

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